Subject: Re: [TAC] OR: Losing Ten Inches Ain't Fun!
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 17:44:44 -0700
From: Matthew Marcus
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So you were down to 8", huh? Welcome to my world :-)

Anyway, I was helping out with public observing at Lawrence Hall of Science,
which is why I wasn't at Lake Sonoma. It was mucky,
the seeing was bad,
and we only had a couple of customers. All we could show was Saturn, Mars (a
blurry orange disk), M44 and M36. Considering that we
had an 8" Dob,
an 11" Dob and a refractor (~4"?), we had a lot more scope than sky. The fog
rolled in around 10, which by that time felt a bit
like being on jury duty and
being told that the call is over; go home. The few customers we had were duly
appreciative of even the poor views of Saturn and the
star clusters. It is
refreshing to see this stuff, vicariously, through new eyes.
mam